- India on Wednesday reported a total of 71,365 new coronavirus cases, bringing the country's COVID-19 tally of infections to 4,24,10,976. According to the Union Health Ministry, the active cases declined to 8,92,828.
- More than 25,000 people have died by suicide from 2018 to 2020 due to unemployment and bankruptcy, the government informed Wednesday in the Rajya Sabha. The data provided by the Centre said 9,140 people died by suicide due to unemployment while 16,091 perished due to bankruptcy or debts.
- Biju Janata Dal (BJD) MP Prasanna Acharya Wednesday urged the Centre to bring a legislation to change the name of Orissa High Court to High Court of Odisha.
- Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai Wednesday evaded a direct response to the demand of the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) seeking deployment of uninterrupted helicopter services in Odisha for evacuation of casualties in left wing extremism (LWE) affected areas.
- The Higher Education (HE) Department Wednesday directed Utkal University here to submit utilisation certificates for funds to the tune of Rs 125 crore.
- Hundreds of students in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata Wednesday chanted slogans and blocked roads in protest of a hijab ban in the southern state of Karnataka, as a row over wearing the head covering in schools intensifies
- The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, PSLV-C52, will launch with EOS-04 at 05:59 am on February 14. The first launch of 2022 comes months after the fatal loss of the Earth Observation Satellite (EOS-03) that could not be deployed due to a "technical anomaly" in August last year.
- The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) will conduct the Term -II Board examinations for Class 10th and 12th from 26th of April, 2022. It has decided to conduct the Term-II Examinations for session 2021-22 in offline mode.
- Presently 5,625 freedom fighters receive monthly Samman pension under SSSY, In a written reply in Rajya Sabha, Minister of State for Home Affairs, Ajay Kumar Mishra said
- Assam State Election Commission announces polls for 80 municipal boards on 6th March
- The *Andaman & Nicobar* administration has announced that all tourist spots in the South Andaman district will be opened for tourism activities with immediate effect.
- A three-judge bench of the Karnataka High Court, comprising Chief Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi, Justice Krishna S Dixit and Justice JM Khazi, will hear petitions challenging the ban on hijab in colleges. Reportedly, the matter will be heard at 2:30 pm. Justice Dixit heard the matter for the second day today and referred it to a larger bench
- Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) leaders on Wednesday said that anti-farmer laws might be reintroduced if BJP returns to power in Uttar Pradesh
- The Border Security Force (BSF) on 09 Feb (Wednesday) claimed to have foiled a narcotics and weapon smuggling bid by a drone along the India-Pakistan border around 1 am in the Panjgrain area of Gurdaspur sector in Punjab.
- The Congress Wednesday promised to waive farm loans within 10 days and provide 20 lakh jobs if the party forms the government in Uttar Pradesh.
- The Centre has released`5,969.61 crore to the bank accounts of over 39.36 lakh farmers of Odisha under the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PMKISAN) scheme, Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar recently said in Lok Sabha.
- With an aim to speed up proposals for diversion of forests, the Odisha government has created a land bank of 26,500 acre in 18 districts to undertake compensatory afforestation works.
- Resources can be mobilised immediately for demolition of real estate group Supertech's illegal 40-storey twin-towers so that the process to raze them can begin from February 20, the Noida Authority said to Supertech and Edifice Engineering.
- The president was scheduled to inaugurate the new Darbar Hall at Raj Bhavan in Mumbai on December 8 last year, but the event was put off following the death of the then Chief of Defence Staff Gen Bipin Rawat that day, it said.The new hall has a seating capacity of 750 individuals as against 225 of the previous one.
- The Orissa High Court on Wednesday granted anticipatory bail to Union minister Bishweswar Tudu in connection with the assault of two state government officials last month.
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